Few experiences in life are more infuriating than finding that you've typed four kinds of gibberish because you brushed your touchpad, moving the cursor as you worked. You have a few options: Toss ...

Your laptop's touchpad is a convenient substitute for carrying a mouse, but it can easily get in the way of typing. Brush it with your hand, and you can find that the cursor has moved, resulting in ...

Learn how to create a shortcut that opens your mouse properties to the dialog that lets you change your touch pad's settings. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

Ubuntu: If you're running Ubuntu on a laptop, and you want to disable the touchpad when you have it connected to an external keyboard or mouse, Touchpad-Indicator is a menubar applet that can help.

Many Toshiba laptops feature a touchpad that you can use to control the cursor on your Windows desktop. This increases the laptop's portability because the touchpad replaces the need to connect a ...

Many moons ago I wrote about TouchFreeze, a free laptop utility that solves one of life’s most maddening problems: accidental swipes of your touchpad while typing. (Why isn’t Windows smart enough to ...

The line between tablet and laptop seems to be becoming increasingly blurred, but there's certainly functionality that only a classic laptop can offer. Physical keyboards of a practical size and hardy ...

Have you ever been typing a document and then suddenly your mouse cursor moves to another section of your page? Then, before you know it you are typing in the middle of another sentence you already ...